Betoga-ed

The offices of the betoga-ed and august lawmakers of the upper house Congress lend themselves to other uses than writing statutes and drafting ponderous resolutions.

A costume affair, student ingenuity converts bed linen into togas between school and supper and a betoga-ed Roman pedaling schoolward on his bike causes no alarm in Larchmont, although unsafe in a high wind.

Check for reservations may be sent to the PSA, P.O. Box 447, Pasadena, now, so if you want to see and hear this fascinating betoga-ed (he weaves the cloth), bethonged (he makes them, too) philosopher, artist, author, actor, craftsman — “the universal man in the age of specialists” — mail them right now for good seats.

The first day of freshman Latin class a group of betoga-ed persons greeted class members individually and baptized them with Latin names (mine was Lucius Cornelius Cinna) in a brief ceremony in which one of the baptizers says “Hoc nomen tibi do” (“this name I give you”), reads the name, then makes a ritual gesture and places around the neck of the baptized a circular card (on a gold-colored cord) with the Latin name written thereon.

The royal pair surrounded by grandchildren Craig and Cheryl Cortemeglia, Jennifer Kuhn, Austin Weber, Nick and Holly Veiga, classically betoga-ed, as they made their royal entrance to “Stardust.”